Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, September 6 2016

Tuesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Corinthians

6,1-11.

]Brothers and sisters : How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones?
]Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unqualified for the lowest law courts?
]Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not everyday matters?
]If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat as judges people of no standing in the church?
]I say this to shame you. Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be able to settle a case between brothers?
]But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?
]Now indeed (then) it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?
]Instead, you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers.
]Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals
]nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
]That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Psalm

Psalms

149(148),1-2.3-4.5-6a.9b.

]Sing to the LORD a new song
of praise in the assembly of the faithful.
]Let Israel be glad in their maker,
let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.
]Let them praise his name in the festive dance,
let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.
]For the LORD loves his people,
and he adorns the lowly with victory.
]Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy upon their couches;
]Let the high praises of God be in their throats.
]This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia!

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

6,12-19.

]Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
]When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles:
]Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
]Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot,
]and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
]And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
]came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
]Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.

---

St. Eleutherius(Abbot († c. 585))

SAINT ELEUTHERIUS Abbot( c. 585) One of St. Eleutherius' characteristics was compunction for sins. His acute conscience helped him remain morally upright. He was consecrated abbot of St. Mark's near Spoleto and was favored with the gift of miracles. St. Eleutherius once delivered a child from demonic possession. However, the demon reentered when he said, "The devil dares not approach the child since he is among the servants of God." The child was finally delivered after St. Eleutherius confessed, prayed and fasted with his community. When St. Gregory the Great was unable to fast on Easter Eve because of extreme weakness, he entreated St. Eleutherius to go with him to the church of St. Andrew and pray. St. Eleutherius prayed with childlike confidence and the Pope found himself suddenly strengthened and able to perform the fast.St. Gregory the Great wrote that St. Eleutherius once raised a dead man to life. St. Eleutherius passed away at St. Andrew's monastery in Rome circa 585. His compunction for sins helped him measure the gravity of offences against God. However, his contrition and trust in God's mercy helped him rise immediately after every fall.

---

Bl. Bertrand()

misalcatolico.com

---

Category: Mass by Year / Catholic Missal 2016 / Catholic Missal of september 2016